Join us for a pre-hours curator led tour of Annie Liebovitz' latest work. WOMEN: New Portraits is a continuation of a project that Annie Leibovitz began over fifteen years ago. The new portraits unveiled in London reflect the changes in the roles of women today and feature women of outstanding achievement including artists, musicians, CEOs, […]
Join us for a rare opportunity to view an installation of the sixteen original photomontages of Syrcas, a seminal body of work created by Maud Sulter (b. 1960 – d. 2008) during the early 1990s. Sulter was an influential visual artist, poet, playwright and curator of Scottish-Ghanaian descent. Throughout her career and across different media, […]
A remarkable collection of lost works by WW2 Official War Artist Evelyn Dunbar (1906 – 1960) goes on show for the first time. In 1940, Evelyn Dunbar was appointed by the War Artists' Advisory Committee as an official war artist, eventually becoming the only woman artist to receive successive and continuous commissions throughout the war. Her brief was to […]
Wu Lan-Chiann, Thumbs west wind, ink on paper Born and raised in Taiwan, artist Wu Lan-Chiann received her BFA from the Chinese Culture University in Taipei, Taiwan, MA from New York University’s Fine Art Department, and trained under Ou Haonian. Wu Lan-Chiann is well versed in the tradition of Chinese ink paintings but Western influences […]
Please join us to visit the studio of contemporary artist Aleksandra Mir for a small private preview of a work which is about to travel to Tate Liverpool and the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. Mir is a performance, video and conceptual artist who is held in the collections of most major […]
Winifred Knights, Edge of Abruzzi; boat with three people on a lake, 1924-30, Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 68.5 cm, Private Collection. © The Estate of Winifred Knights Join us for an introductory talk and the opportunity to be one of the first to visit the latest in the series of exhibitions at Dulwich Picture […]
We are honoured to have Whitechapel Gallery Chief Curator Lydia Yee lead us on a tour of the recently opened exhibition ‘Mary Heilmann: Looking at Pictures’. Mary Heilmann, Crashing Wave, 2011 (detail), Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.60 cm, © Mary Heilmann, Photo: Thomas Müller, Courtesy of the artist, 303 Gallery, New York, and […]
London Art Weekend offers a weekend full of events enticing visitors to explore Mayfair. Exhibition highlights, featuring women artists, include: Stefanie Graff at Almine Rech Gallery Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery Charlotte Colbert at Gazelli Art House Anne Samat at Vanessa Gounden Sophie Ryder at Hignell Gallery Gego at Dominique Levy Yayoi Kusama at Victoria […]
Please save the date for this exciting evening with Kathryn Wat, head curator at NMWA. Information to follow.
Please join us for an extraordinary chance to peer behind the scenes at the RA, and into the only artist's studio, with the first woman Keeper of the Royal Academy, Eileen Cooper. This event is only open to Patrons and there is no charge. Please RSVP to RSVP@UKFriendsofNMWA.org as numbers are limited. If you have not […]
Please join us for a very special tour with Lucinda Lovell of Contemporary Key. Lucinda will be sharing her extensive insight into the contemporary art world, with a focus on women artists. This year’s fair brings together more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries, alongside the fair’s celebrated non-profit programme of ambitious new artist commissions and […]
Starting in the 1990s with just a few pieces, the New Hall Art Collection at Murray Edwards College at Cambridge now has over 450 paintings, prints and sculpture, making it the second largest collection of art by women in the world. Much of the collection has been given to the College by the artists themselves […]
For the first Salon Seres of our new year, historian and Oxford lecturer Anna Beer will be taking us from 17th century Medici Florence to London during the Blitz as she reveals the hidden stores of eight remarkable women composers -- Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Marianna Martines, Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn), Clara […]
Join us for a curator-led tour of Feminist Avant–Garde of the 1970s, an expansive exhibition comprising forty-eight international female artists and over 150 major works from the Verbund Collection in Vienna. The exhibition highlights groundbreaking practices that shaped the feminist art movement and provides a timely reminder of the wide impact of a generation of […]
Please join us as the doors open to Terrains of the Body: Photography from NMWA for a tour of the exhibition by Whitechapel curator, Lydia Yee. Terrains of the Body: Photography from NMWA is the first showing outside of the US of part of NMWA’s rich collection of contemporary photography by women. The exhibition presents […]
Please join us for this unique opportunity to be taken behind the scenes of the UK Government's extraordinary art collection. Since 1898, the government has been collecting art to promote artists who have a strong British connection and displaying it in over 450 government buildings - including Downing Street -- both home and abroad. There are over 540 women […]
Join us for a tour of a Mary Fedden's work at the Portland Gallery led by exhibition curator Sidonie Metherell. Fedden, a much-loved Royal Academician, studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Fedden developed a bold, expressive style featuring flowers and still life, reminiscent of artists such as Matisse and Braque. As a teacher […]
Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, the modernist painter, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was a pivotal player in 20th century British art, inventing a new language of visual expression. Muse to fellow artists such as Roger Fry, sister of Virginia Woolf, mastermind of the idyllic Bloomsbury life at Charleston – Bell’s reputation […]
You have asked for more evening events and here is one -- a tour of Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts led by Chief Curator Lydia Yee of Whitechapel Gallery. The exhibition features work by: Marina Abramović, Rineke Dijkstra, Anna Gaskell, Nan Goldin, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, Candida Höfer, Icelandic Love Corporation, Mwangi Hutter, Kirsten Justesen, Justine Kurland, Nikki S. Lee, Hellen van […]
Join us for a curator-led tour of Entangled: Threads & Making -- a major exhibition of sculpture, installation, tapestry, textiles and jewellery from the early 20th century to the present day. It features over 40 international female artists who expand the possibilities of embroidery, weaving, sewing and wood carving, often incorporating unexpected materials such as plants, […]